[LON-CAPA-admin] not a valid domain

[H. K. Ng]

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Stuart Raeburn <raeburn at msu.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > Sorry ...
> > Error The domain you provided is not a valid LON-CAPA domain.
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience.
>
> This issue has affected most high school domains, including fsuK12 and
> domains hosted by ohiou and educog.
>
> The issue here is that when the 5.10 am local time run of loncron ran
> today 5/28, the dns_domain.tab retrieved by your servers was
> incomplete, because the data retrieved from the selected the LON-CAPA
> Academic Consortium "DNS" server was truncated for some reason.
>
> To fix this issue do the following:
>
> 1. Use a text editor to comment out the following line:
> ^dalton.chem.sfu.ca
>

I guess use # for the comment lines.
Do I need to change hosts.tab for all the servers?

Thanks,
-hk



>
> in /home/httpd/lonTabs/hosts.tab
>
> 2. Log-in to LON-CAPA on your server and select the Domain Coordinator
> role and use:
>
> Main Menu -> Status of domain servers -> Update Connections and
> Refresh Status Information
>
>
> > Any ideas? The domain is listed in the dns_domain.tab file.
>
> Yes.
>
> The "static" dns_domain.tab (shipped with a LON-CAPA release) is only
> consulted in the event that none of the LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
> servers (at SFU, Illinois and MSU are contactable).
>
> However, in this case they are contactable, so the information
> received from the first contacted -- SFU -- was used, when loading the
> domain tables on your server.
>
> Unfortunately, the data returned from that file on the SFU server
> appears to be truncated when a request is made for the data from:
>
> https://dalton.chem.sfu.ca/adm/dns/domain
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stuart Raeburn
> LON-CAPA Acdemic Consortium
>
>
> Quoting "H. K. Ng" <hkng at fsu.edu>:
>
> > Something strange seems to be going on with loncapa fsuK12 domain. When a
> > user tries to login under that domain, it gives the message
> >
> > Sorry ...
> > Error The domain you provided is not a valid LON-CAPA domain.
> >
> > I tried with on of the msu lite servers and it gives me the same message.
> >
> > Any ideas? The domain is listed in the dns_domain.tab file.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -hk
> >
>
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